Typical Microsoft Exchange environments are growing larger and increasingly are managing data and applications critical to a business. This makes backup and restore a greater challenge. Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is a way to use the instant copy capabilities of disk storage hardware for faster backup, thereby reducing the time taken for backup as well as reducing the impact which the backup operation has on the Exchange server.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Copy Services, together with Data Protection for Mail, leverages VSS functionality in an integrated, easy-to-use way, to back up and restore Exchange databases. It supports a wide variety of disk hardware and uses the same interface as traditional Data Protection for Mail operations.
This IBM Redbook will help you plan, configure and run IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Copy Services in your Microsoft Exchange environments
